I felt the same as you. Desperately sorry for a woman who’s clearly been taken advantage of, but it felt there was a lot between the lines that Britney can’t recognise in herself.

She repeats a lot “how could I be unwell if I was still doing XYZ?” Quite easily, and it’s a sincere shame that you had no one around you who was interested in doing anything about that.

Guessing you’re American based on some of those, possible silver brumby didn’t make it there - it’s an Aussie series from I think the 50s (but could be earlier). I was also into anything by the Pullein-Thompson sisters, Monica Dickens (yes… related to that Dickens!), and Ruby Ferguson’s Jill series; those are all English though

I loved the Silver Brumby series; and I was quite a voracious Enid Blyton reader - all the child detectives and the girls boarding school tales, along with random mystery adventures and farm tales

The Hopkins Manuscript by RC Sheriff

And also the Time Police spin off by Taylor

Did they make that into a film where Billy Connolly was inexplicably Paul Walker’s dad?